Begin strong, setting the pace for the story
"The news from France is very bad.." Winston Churchill
A story should be told in short breaths.
Like swimming across a pool. Create a rhythm to the story. Listeners like to have a regular rhythm they can follow.
- clarify the thinking behind plans
- create an image in minds
- capture the imagination and the excitement of the recipients.
A good story speaks in vivid images and defines: characters relationships, a sequence of events, cause and effect, conflict, priority of interests unifying message
If you do not see images in your mind when TELLING a story it is not concrete enough. Be sure to get the visual details.
Use descriptive language (onomatopoeia):
- bang, banged, banging
- bash, bashed, bashing
- bawl, bawled, bawling
- beep, beeped, beeping
- belch, belched, belching
- blab, blabbed, blabbing
- blare, blared, blaring
- blurt, blurted, blurting
- bonk, bonked, bonking
- bong
- boo-hoo
- boom
- bow-wow
- bubble
- bump, bumped, bumping
- buzz, buzzed, buzzing
- chatter
- chirp
- choo-choo
- clang, clanged, clanging
- clank, clanked, clanking
- clap, clapped, clapping,
- clatter, clattered, clattering
- click
- crackle
- cuckoo
- drip
- fizz
- flick, flicker
- flip
- flutter
- giggle
- gurgle, gurgled, gurgling
- haha
- hack
- hiss
- hohoho
- kerplunk
- mumble
- ooze
- ping, plop
- pop, popped, popping
- rattle
- roar, roared, roaring
- rustle, rustled, rustling
- screech, screeched, screeching
- shuffle
- sizzle, sizzled, sizzling
- slash
- slurp
- smack
- splash
- squelch
- swoosh
- thud
- thump, thumped, thumpin
- tic-toc
- tinkle
- twang
- whallop
- whip
- whisper, whispered, whispering
- whizz
- whoosh
- bong
- boom
- bump
- chatter
- chirp
- crackle
- drip
- fizz
- flip
- flutter
- giggle
- hiss
- mumble
- ooze
- ping
- plop
- rattle
- shuffle
- slash
- slurp
- splash
- squelch
- thud
- tinkle
- twang
- whallop
- whizz
Leave the listner with vivid images and catchy statements that they can use to tell there friends.
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